Teaching · For Tutors

Ask families how it is going, then act on it.

Seven statements, one recommendation question and room for their words. The survey averages the answers, turns each weak spot into one action and tells you who to talk with first.

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The family survey

One response per family and date. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · For Tutors$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each family, the average agreement, what is working, what to change with a specific action, a follow-up band and their requests; CSV of every response together.
Who it is for
Independent tutors and tutoring businesses checking in with families each term.
Format
Browser survey you fill in from the family’s answers, or hand them the printed blank. Saved responses; printed with the summary; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Tutoring business kit ($69) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The For Tutors space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
ask, listen, change one thing, say so
Drawn for this page. A survey earns its place when the family sees something change because of it.

How to use it

  1. Print the blank survey or read the questions with the family.
  2. Start a response with a family code and the date.
  3. Enter each answer and the recommendation score.
  4. Read the actions and the follow-up band.
  5. Download the CSV after a round of surveys to see every family together.

Enter a response

Using the survey well

When to ask

About a month in, then once a term. Ask the same questions each time, so changes mean something.

Reading the 0 to 10 answer

Nine or ten usually means a family is glad to recommend you; seven or eight, satisfied but quiet; six or lower, something is wrong. Treat the bands as prompts to talk, not as a score of your work.

What this is not

A measure of learning. Pair it with the student’s own work and assessments.

Sources

  1. Dillman, D. A., Smyth, J. D., & Christian, L. M. (2014). Internet, Phone, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method (4th ed.). Wiley: wording and balanced agreement scales.
  2. Reichheld, F. F. (2003). The one number you need to grow. Harvard Business Review, 81(12): the likelihood-to-recommend question and its bands.
  3. Institute of Education Sciences, Regional Educational Laboratory Program, survey design toolkits for education.
  4. Krosnick, J. A., & Presser, S. (2010). Question and questionnaire design. In Handbook of Survey Research (2nd ed.). Emerald.

The example family is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.